Android Thread: Phones / Apps / Mods

This is a discussion on Android Thread: Phones / Apps / Mods within Gadgets, Computers & Software, part of the Shifting gears category; Originally Posted by phamilyman
But guess what? Jelly bean's keyboard takes off on Swiftkey. Here is the story:
The new ...

But guess what? Jelly bean's keyboard takes off on Swiftkey. Here is the story:

The new Android also promises a smarter keyboard, with a feature for predicting your next word before you type.

That IS what swiftkey does. Clearly, Google put its money behind prediction and not swiping. Think about it.

Interesting. Seems like Google might put Swiftkey outta business? Personally, I'm not too sure which one would be faster. Would have to time it and see. Or it may be personal preferance. For me both work... as long as the screen is big enough. As we can see, there are many here who would rather bet on sliding. Or maybe we need something thats good at both.

I was wondering if there is an ideal/easy way to move all my contacts, SMS messages, Whatsapp messages from the iphone 3G to the Samsung S3.

Any help on the above would be appreciated. :-)

For your contacts you can sync them with ur gmail id and use the same to setup the same on your s3.

Few months ago a friend moved from 3gs to s2 and the shop he bought the phone from did all that for him. I am not sure about whatsapp though. I am 100% sure he had his phone book and sms all transferred from 3gs to s2.

Here's what you do to sync everything to your Google account.
On your IPhone go to settings - mail, contacts and calendar - add account... Add your Google account as an exchange account and use "m.google.com" as the server. Leave domain blank.

Once you've done this it should sync all your Google contacts to your device. To get it working the other way, go back into mail, contacts and calendar and change the default account under contacts to "Google" or whatever you just named your new account. This will copy all of your existing contacts to your Google account which can then be used by your Android phone.

The benefit of doing it this way is that your Android and iOS devices will stay in sync without any third party software and without you having to do anything.

In continuation of previous discussion on Airdroid, it seems they have indeed carried out their promise in their reply to me! The app no longer auto loads or sits in RAM. Truly an app worth buying/donating to and rating 5 stars.

well modern batteries have a fail safe mechanism inbuilt (they will never drain completely).

In fact it is a good practice to calibrate your battery periodically (maybe once in 2-3 months). Let it drain such that phone switches off itself (dont worry, still there will be some juice there, its just the protection mechanism at work there). Then charge it for 8 hours while your phone is switched off. Then switch it on and charge it for an hour or so. Then again switch it off and charge for an hour. This would recalibrate the battery.

It is also recommended to do the above every time you flash a new ROM etc.